Maryam Yousefi Paskeh; Farshad Tojari; Zinat Nikaeen
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Objective: The purpose of present research was to consider causal relationship of reference groups’ demographic characteristics and its effect on purchasing decision process in sport consumers. Methodology: The present research is practical and descriptive-correlation. Research statistical population ...
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Objective: The purpose of present research was to consider causal relationship of reference groups’ demographic characteristics and its effect on purchasing decision process in sport consumers. Methodology: The present research is practical and descriptive-correlation. Research statistical population is all of physical education students in Guilan University Province which statistical samples were selected classified accidental. For gathering data was used research-made questionnaire and content validity of questionnaire was confirmed by 12 experts. Also, its reliability was calculated by Cronbach’s alpha (0.95) and composite reliability. To analyze data and investigating model fitting was used structural equation modeling and PLS software. Results: According to analysis of course was revealed that variable of reference groups’ demographic features has positive and significant relationship with informational influence, utilitarian influence and value-expressive (0.79, 0.68 and 0.74) directly; but it didn’t have significant influence on purchasing decision making directly. Also, variables of informational influence, utilitarian influence and value-expressive influence (0.10, 0.64 and 0.22) had positive and significant relationship with purchasing decision directly. Conclusion: Generally, reference groups’ demographic features by influencing on three types of informational influence, utilitarian influence and value-expressive influence can be determinative of purchasing decision making in consumers considerably. Thus, sport stores in marketing strategies and keeping consumer should consider to factors and influencing ways on consumer purchasing behavior.
ie rizvandi; Farshad Tojari; mohammad reza Esmaili
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Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the relationship between club nature, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial marketing and the performance of sport club managers. Methodology: This study was practical due to its subjectives and was descriptive-correlational due to its methodology. ...
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Objectives: The present study aimed to determine the relationship between club nature, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial marketing and the performance of sport club managers. Methodology: This study was practical due to its subjectives and was descriptive-correlational due to its methodology. Statistical population was consisted of managers of Tehran sport clubs among whom 700 individuals were selected using cluster sampling. Herein, we used questionnaires of marketing from Butcher et al(2008), club nature of Khazai (1392), entrepreneurial orientation of Mohammadi(1390) and performance of Fazel(1390). For data analysis on an inferential statistics level, partial least squares (PLS) was used to test hypothesis and the goodness of fit of the model. Results: Results showed that there is a casual meaningful relationship between club nature, entrepreneurial orientation, entrepreneurial marketing and the performance of sport club managers. In the modern days of marketing, old-fashioned traditional methods of marketing are no longer meeting all the needs of market and results affirmed that novel methods are required. Conclusion: In today's competitive market, world, traditional marketing does not meet the needs and results have shown that more novel methods of marketing are more effective. Moreover, according to research model, entrepreneurial marketing can improve the function and individualize the company from other competitors. Based on the previous studies, novel marketing strategies would assist managers to create positive progress in the organization.
Bahzad Izadi; Mohammad Ehsani; Hashem Koozechian; Farshad Tojari
Volume 4, Issue 2 , June 2015, , Pages 57-70
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Objective: The purpose of this research was to investigate management role on improving fan relationship quality in Iranian premier Football league. Methodology: The research was a developmental research considering the purpose and a mixed research considering the nature of data. The statistical population was ...
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Objective: The purpose of this research was to investigate management role on improving fan relationship quality in Iranian premier Football league. Methodology: The research was a developmental research considering the purpose and a mixed research considering the nature of data. The statistical population was consisted of football fans which were older than sixteen years. 527 questionnaires were selected as study sample from 674 gathered questionnaires based on the research definition of fan which tells a fan should attend above 8 games of their favorite team in a season. Descriptive and inferential statistics including Kolmogroff- Smirnoff, Pearson correlation, and structural equation models (SEM) were used to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that fan relationship management factors have positive and significant effect on relationship quality. They also proved that service quality (0.405) and knowledge management (0.536) have a direct and positive significant effect on relationship quality. Conclusion: According to results, organizational support can improve relationship quality through service quality and knowledge management.
